Poetry as Experience - (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (Paperback)

This book, "Poetry as Experience," by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, is a groundbreaking analysis of Paul Celan's poetry that challenges traditional notions of subjectivity and language.

Lacoue-Labarthe argues that Celan's poetry represents a new kind of lyric language that does not express subjectivity but rather commemorates the voiding of concepts and the collapse of the constitutive powers of the subject.

Through detailed analyses of two decisive poems by Celan, "Tübingen, Jänner" and "Todtnauberg," as well as a sustained reading of "The Meridian," Lacoue-Labarthe shows how Celan's verse of singularity represents the movement at and beyond the border of generalizable experience.

This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the intersection of philosophy, literature, and history, and it will challenge readers to rethink their assumptions about the nature of language and subjectivity.